The Federal Reserve sets the federal funds target rate, also known as the fed funds rate, which is the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight. Below, CNBC Select ...
Annual inflation ticked up for a third straight month in December as food, energy costs rose, CPI report showed. But ...
When the Federal Reserve jolted markets in December, it wasn’t with its decision to cut interest rates by a quarter point, but with big changes in its rate forecasts for 2025. Fed officials ...
Inflation is proving stickier than expected, which could cause Fed to hit pause button on more interest rate cuts.
The U.S. job market again defied an anticipated slowdown, with firms adding more than a quarter of a million jobs in the last full month of Joe Biden's presidency and leaving Federal Reserve ...
The Fed wrapped up 2024 with three rate cuts in total. The central bank started with a bigger half-point cut in September, then made smaller quarter-point cuts in both November and December.
Jan 10 (Reuters) - Top Wall-Street brokerages revised their Fed rate cut forecasts, after a blow-out U.S. jobs report on Friday, with BofA Global Research forecasting a potential rate hike from the ...